The CRPF, the biggest paramiliatry in the world, has favoured allowing transgender as a third gender along with male and female for the entrance examination for recruitment of officers.
The move comes a day after the deadline for comments on the issue as sought by the Centre expired on Thursday. The Union Home Ministry had on Wednesday circulated a memorandum to the CRPF, ITBP, SSB and CISF to offer comments for incorporating transgender as a third gender in the rules for CAPF (Assistant Commandant) Examination, 2020 latest by Thursday for taking a final view on the matter.
“We fully value the spirit of the order of Hon’ble Supreme Court. CRPF already has a gender neutral work environment. In view of impending policy guidelines of MHA, we shall make it further compatible as per the need,” a senior CRPF official said on Friday.
This is the view and recommendation of CRPF on recruitment of transgender in CAPF and the same has been accordingly communicated to the Home Ministry, the CRPF official said.
The BSF has already communicated a positive response on the issue of allowing transgender as candidate for taking the entrance exanination of the Assistant commandant.
The entrance for the Assistant Commandant is conducted by the Union Public Service Commission but the Central Armed Police Forces or the paramilitary forces have their separate rules for recruitment of the Directly Appointed Gazetted Officers or the cadre officers who are the mainstay of the forces administrative and operational structure.
The SSB and ITBP are also likely to follow suit in favouring the allowance of the transgenders as a separate category into the recruitment rules.
Once the responses from all the paramilitary forces are received, the Home Ministry will take a consolidated view on the issue of incorporating trasngender as a separate category besides male/female in the recruitment rules of the paramilitary forces, officials said.